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Fairies consider it really quite rude to trample on bluebells as they hold them in such high regard...it is said that when they need to summon their kin to a Gathering then the bluebells make a ringing sound - but if humans hear this then it is a bad omen...

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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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A flower of loyalty - day after day the sunflower follows the sun from east to west..

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Lots of history with Bluebells in Ireland, It's unlucky to walk through a field of them, because they're full of spells. When a bluebell is rung it calls the fairies. If someone wears a wreath made of Bluebells they will have to tell the truth.

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Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm Fairy

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Objects - and people - struck by lightning were viewed with reverence and awe in Ancient Greece. Those killed by lightning were called dioblêtoi, "Those smitten by Zeus," and were often given special burials.



(Source: Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Death)

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Rag rugs like this one in cottage No. 5 had a red diamond in the middle called a 'Devil's Eye', which was supposed to trick demons coming down the chimney into thinking there was already a devil in the building!

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In Greek legend Crocus was a mortal youth - after his failed affair with the nymph Smilax the gods turned him into a plant..

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The Mandrake or Mandragora Officinarum has more folklore associated with it than just about any other plant.

The best known piece of folklore about the Mandrake is that it screams as it is pulled out of the ground, killing anyone who heard it.

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Atropos, "whose name means 'the dreadful,' 'the merciless,' or 'the cutter,'" holds the shears, cuts the thread, determines the manner of one's death. (Judika Illes's The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, 154-155) (2/3)

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Atropa belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, is a poisonous and deadly plant which grows among ruins and in wastelands. Its genus name comes from Atropos, the oldest of the three Fates. (Judika Illes's The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, 154-155) (1/3)

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In there is an ancient belief that if you plant a tree near your front door it will ward off witches’ spells as well as faeries & bad spirits. Rowan is also known as witchentree or witch-wood. month, Img: Cicely Barker

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I'm Mar! Illustrator and Animator from Portugal who loves working with my own Culture and Folklore Myths as well as I love Fantasy, Witches, Wolves and Werewolves 🐺💕

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2020-01-22

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Dragons of the Air Original Chinese Folklore Creatures Lightening Horned Winged Scales Teeth Treasure Hoard Guards https://t.co/To0g8QyW4Z

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2020-01-22

The coming-of-age tale of a lonely child set against a backdrop of Ancient Gaelic folklore. After getting lost in the forest, Ainsel encounters a strange and powerful magic.

With the help of the creatures of the woods, Ainsel pieces together the identity they’ve been missing.

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2020-01-21

Folklore Project 🌙⭐️
Just a friendly reminder that references are sooo useful!! 😉✨either for perspective or light and shadow.

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2020-01-21

Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: The Kelpie Original Celtic Folklore Mythical Creatures Great Wave Storm Shipwrecks Man Woman Carried Away Horseback https://t.co/ijeTQPU0m5

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2020-01-21

Why are fiction and folklore a match made in reader heaven? Find out in this post: https://t.co/fu3w8pO4rb

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2020-01-20

finally did some sculpting this weekend for our work SculptClub. We have a theme each weekend, this time it was 'Moonlight' so I thought I'd do a Moon Rabbit [pounding rice for rice cakes] from the Korean and Japanese folklore... He's fierce with his mullet!

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2020-01-20

From Hell

Art from Peter Folklore

Yours Truly

Jack https://t.co/2UyKUC3f0K

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